Two West Point graduates reached the rank of General Officer and later became the President of the US: Grant and Eisenhower. Jefferson Davis, the President of the CSA was also a West Point graduate as was President Samoza of Nicaragua, President Ramos of the Philippines and President Figueres of Costa Rica.
Ulysses S. Grant (18th president 1869-1877) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th president 1953-1961)
Grant, Eisenhower both graduated from West Point.
Eisenhower.& U S Grant
John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight Eisenhower, graduated from West Point in 1944.
George Washington. West Point had not been created.Note to earlier poster- Grant did graduate from West Point.
This West Point graduate became a General in the US Army. Part of his popularity as a Presidential candidate derived from his military career. Ulysses S. Grant was the first West Point graduate to become President.
The first black West Point cadet was former slave James Webster Smith, who entered the academy in 1870 but did not graduate. Henry O. Flipper was the first black cadet to graduate from West Point, in 1877.
A current West Point graduate becomes a 2nd lieutenant with a salary of $69,000 per year.
U.S. Grant
He graduated in 1846
Ulysses S. Grant entered West Point in 1839 and graduated in 1843.
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi -West Point graduate, US Secretary of War, and a US senator
Yes he was a graduate of West Point University and became superintendent of west Point.
Yes, to some. Henry Flipper was the first African-American to graduate from West Point.
The first Buffalo soldier was Henry Flipper. He was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.